Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 595, sweet potato harvest
"Okay, let's go and see if this sweet potato can produce dozens of stones per mu."

"Back then, Liu Jin, you boasted a lot."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately walked towards the sweet potato field happily.

Everyone smiled and came to the sweet potato field. The *potato field is square.

At this time, autumn was approaching winter, and it was already a bit cold in the capital. The leaves and vines of sweet potatoes had withered, and it was time to harvest.

"These are sweet potatoes?"

Emperor Hongzhi came to the sweet potato field and went to the field to have a look with great interest.

"Your Majesty, the sweet potatoes are in the ground, and you need to dig the soil to get them out."

Liu Jin quickly replied.

"Yeah~"

"Come here, bring me a hoe, I want to dig some sweet potatoes for myself."

Emperor Hongzhi was in such a good mood that he even wanted to dig sweet potatoes himself.

"Your Majesty, let the minister wait."

When Liu Jian and the others heard this, they said in a hurry.

"You dig too, and I didn't stop you from digging."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said.

Soon someone came over here with some hoes. Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others each had a hoe, and each of them found a place to dig up sweet potatoes with great interest.

"Drink~"

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hoe high, and went down with one hoe.

Well, the digging was a little bit off, but it still dug up a piece of soil.

Sweet potato fields are filled with rows of ridged soil. The soil is very loose, so it is not difficult to dig.

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi dug away some of the soil around the sweet potato roots, and the sweet potatoes were exposed one by one.

"Haha, I got it~"

Seeing the sweet potatoes, Emperor Hongzhi was in a good mood, and he didn't care whether it was dirty or not. He just used his hands to remove the soil, and immediately the sweet potatoes were picked out one by one.

The size of these sweet potatoes is very large, there are several small ones, and the big sweet potatoes even weigh two or three catties. There are several sweet potatoes under a sweet potato plant, just like the young ones.

"It's quite a lot, and the gravity is quite acceptable."

Emperor Hongzhi kept digging with a hoe, and soon dug out all the sweet potatoes. After counting them carefully, there were eight sweet potatoes.

"How much~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the sweet potatoes he had dug out, and weighed them carefully. Just this sweet potato weighed several kilograms, and the yield was impressive.

"This output can~"

Next to it, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others also dug up a sweet potato, and they couldn't help but nodded.

Liu Jin really didn't lie. The yield of this sweet potato is only a few kilograms per plant. Looking at this large sweet potato field, I don't know how many sweet potatoes can be dug up.

"Xiao Jing, take these sweet potatoes back and cook porridge later."

Emperor Hongzhi clapped his hands and waved his hoe to dig up several sweet potatoes one after another. Like the first sweet potato, there were several of them, and the yield was quite high.

"It's okay, the output is so-so~"

Liu Jin on the side also breathed a sigh of relief, the yield of sweet potatoes did not disappoint.

Sweet potatoes are really good varieties, with high yields and good taste.

Well, the disadvantage is that you are not very hungry. You can get full soon after eating sweet potatoes, but you will also get hungry quickly.

But as a supplementary food, it is very good.

In times of famine, this sweet potato is a life-saving food.

"Liu Jin, let people start digging. I'm really curious about how high the yield of these sweet potatoes is."

Emperor Hongzhi put down his hoe and said in a good mood.

"Yes~"

Liu Jin nodded quickly, and then gave instructions to Mao Lun.

Soon, many people entered the fields with hoes and began to dig up sweet potatoes.

This side is digging sweet potatoes, and the other side has already prepared to weigh them, and began to weigh them while digging.

It doesn't take long, just a moment.

The sweet potatoes were dug up one by one and placed on the ridges of the field. In a short time, a large number of sweet potatoes could be seen in the entire field.

"Weighing~"

Some people packed sweet potatoes in baskets, while others carried large scales and notebooks.

"One hundred catties and three catties~"

Just a dozen sweet potatoes were casually filled, and a basket was filled, weighing more than [-] catties.

"Tsk tsk, this output is too high~"

This is just the beginning, when all the ministers carefully compared, some people couldn't help sighing.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this output is absolutely leveraged.

"One hundred and four catties~"

"The total output is five hundred and thirty-seven catties~"

There are enough people, and the sweet potatoes are harvested very quickly.

Baskets of sweet potatoes were constantly weighed, and soon exceeded five hundred catties.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the sweet potatoes that had been processed, and then at the sweet potatoes left in the field, he couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear.

"One thousand catties~"

Soon, the number soared to a thousand catties.

However, there are still a large number of sweet potatoes in the fields that have not been weighed. A rough estimate is that there are at least a few thousand catties of sweet potatoes.

"Three thousand catties~"

Soon, as the statistician reported this number, everyone laughed from ear to ear.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, auspiciousness descended from heaven, and there will be no more famine in Ming Dynasty~"

Liu Jian, a sycophant, immediately took the lead in congratulating Emperor Hongzhi.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty~"

"It is my great fortune to have this fetish."

When the others saw it, they immediately expressed their congratulations.

Now only about half of it has been harvested, and the yield per mu has already exceeded [-] catties. Calculated, the yield of sweet potatoes can at least exceed the yield of [-] catties per mu.

What is the concept of five thousand catties per mu?

In this era, the annual yield of wheat in the north was only about [-] catties per mu, and the yield of rice in the south would not exceed [-] catties per mu.

Now the yield of sweet potatoes is more than ten times that of wheat and rice. How terrible is this yield.

Liu Jian called it auspicious, and he didn't call it out of order.

With this thing, more than ten times the output, the same land can feed more people, which means that the people of Ming Dynasty will be able to eat more in the future.

For Daming, this is definitely a great thing.

"Haha, it's indeed Xiangrui~"

Emperor Hongzhi burst out laughing happily.

He was happier than at any other moment, because he knew that with this sweet potato, as long as his old Zhu's family didn't play tricks to a certain extent, the country would be stable.

As long as the common people can eat enough to eat, other things are easy to talk about.

"Four thousand catties~"

The weighing was still going on, and soon it broke through [-] jin, and everyone laughed from ear to ear.

"God~"

"If there were sweet potatoes like this a few years ago, my poor child would not have starved to death."

At this time, an old farmer who was buying couldn't help but knelt down on the ground, crying all over.

He thought of his own children, and remembered the experience of his children being starved to death when there was a famine a few years ago.

The yield of wheat is too low.

Wheat varieties of this era were not improved and yields were limited.

Coupled with the absence of pesticides and fertilizers, the yield is even lower.

It is not bad if one mu of land can produce three hundred catties of wheat.

The sweet potato in front of me yields several thousand catties per mu.

If there were sweet potatoes at that time, I don’t know how many people would have died of starvation.

Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian and others all looked over one after another, and when they heard the old farmer's cry, they all fell silent.

Especially Emperor Hongzhi, he has always thought that he was a very good emperor.

But the past few years have made him see himself clearly, what he has done is far from enough.

I used to be immersed in the beautiful world compiled by civil servants.

Now I see a lot of things clearly, which is why I have made these changes.

"Liu Jin is right. The world is very big. My Chinese descendants should not only be limited to Daming, but should go all over the world to seize more land."

"It is one thing to have good seeds. If there is more land, it can naturally feed more people."

Emperor Hongzhi felt a lot and looked at Liu Jin.

He remembered some of Liu Jin's words. To increase food production, the land must also be continuously expanded, and people in densely populated areas must be moved out.

Liaodong, Ryukyu, Nanyang, Huangjinzhou, Australia, there are many good places in the world, and they can all be snatched.

"Five thousand catties~"

The weighing was still going on, and it soon broke through the [-] mark.

But because of the old farmer crying, everyone became a lot more silent.

The prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is suffering.

These important ministers of the imperial court still have a lot of things that have not been done well, far from being done well, and they are just immersed in the so-called prosperity of Confucianism, which is too false.

The crying old farmer in front of him seemed to be slapping his face.

"Five thousand five hundred and sixty-eight catties~"

Soon, the sweet potatoes in one mu of land were harvested, and the weighing was completed.

Mao Lun piled up the sweet potatoes like a hill, and also reported the numbers.

"More than five thousand five hundred catties~"

"Okay, okay~"

"With this sweet potato, there will be no more famine in my Ming Dynasty."

"Liu Jin, how should I reward you?"

Emperor Hongzhi smiled happily and nodded, then looked at Liu Jin and asked.

"Your Majesty, I dare not take credit~"

"The good breed was brought back from the Golden Continent by the Marquis Taiping and his crew after untold hardships."

"I don't have any credit for it, but I'm sorry to ask for a reward."

When Liu Jin heard this, he quickly shook his head and said.

"No, you have credit, great credit."

Emperor Hongzhi said solemnly: "If you hadn't said that there are high-yield varieties in Huangjinzhou, naturally there would be nothing like this."

"This sweet potato, corn, potato and other good varieties from the Golden Continent can solve my Ming's food problem, and make my Ming no longer suffer from famine."

"This is a great contribution, and there will be rewards for those who have contributed~"

"Well, the purpose~"

"Liu Jin was granted the Marquis of Liaodong, hereditary, promoted to a higher level, and rewarded with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in Liaodong..."

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand, and immediately began to speak.

I gave Liu Jin a marquis, which is hereditary, um, the kind that belongs to the iron rice bowl, and it will not decrease. At the same time, it is also a promotion for Liu Jin.

It was originally the fourth rank, but now it is promoted to the third rank, and the speed of this promotion is as fast as riding a rocket.

As for the tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in Liaodong... Emperor Hongzhi also learned badly.

　Isn't it too much to be named a Marquis?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)